Election workers

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Election workers or tellers are members of an electoral board who issue ballot papers in the polling stations and ensure the proper election of citizens, count the ballot papers after the end of the voting period and determine the election results for the respective polling station. In Germany and Switzerland this is an honorary position . Election workers or tellers are sought in Germany and Switzerland on a voluntary basis or are determined and required by the local electoral authority. Election workers are paid an expense allowance ( refreshment allowance).

Election workers when casting votes and counting votes are not to be confused with election workers in the election campaign . The latter support campaigning parties and politicians across the country before the election, while the former help in an official function at the local level in the polling station with the electoral process and are not allowed to advertise parties there.

Country specifics

Germany

Austria

In Austria the electoral board is called the “electoral authority”. It consists of an election supervisor (or his deputy) and assessors (or your substitute assessors). Unlike in Germany, the deputy is not also an assessor.

The office of a member of an electoral authority is a public honorary office.

There is a certain, small, but inconsistent compensation for work that takes place on an election day.

A large number of the election assessors are nominated as confidants by the campaigning groups.

In Styria, for the first time for the election to the National Council on October 15, 2017, the election assessors will be appointed by decree to the electoral authority and each will receive a personal certificate.

Switzerland

There are voluntary tellers in Switzerland. The local council is looking for this at the community level.

Web links

Wiktionary: Wahlhelfer  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Austria

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Election workers. Duden , accessed on July 10, 2013 .
  2. ↑ National Council election. bmi , accessed December 27, 2013 .
  3. ↑ National Council election. bmi , accessed December 27, 2013 .
  4. ↑ NR election: A certificate for each election assessor orf.at, August 28, 2017, accessed August 28, 2017.
  5. ↑ The agony of choice, The city of Zurich seeks tellers , Neue Zürcher Zeitung, May 27, 2002